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... gods , the Sun God and the Weather Gods , entrusted the land and my house . " These earth gods and sky gods remained side by side in most cultures ; but if the vegetation gods continued to be the more sympathetic , lovable , and popular ...
... gods , the Sun God and the Weather Gods , entrusted the land and my house . " These earth gods and sky gods remained side by side in most cultures ; but if the vegetation gods continued to be the more sympathetic , lovable , and popular ...
Page 174
... gods , sun - gods , storm - gods were based , Eliade notes , on " hiero- phanies of the sky ( high , bright , shining , sky , rain ) : The Sumerian sky god Anu became the chief god of the Babylonians , and his temple at Uruk was called ...
... gods , sun - gods , storm - gods were based , Eliade notes , on " hiero- phanies of the sky ( high , bright , shining , sky , rain ) : The Sumerian sky god Anu became the chief god of the Babylonians , and his temple at Uruk was called ...
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... gods of power had not triumphed , if kingship had not found a negative mode of increasing the scope of the human machine and therewith elevating the royal claim to absolute obedi- ence , the whole further course of civilization might ...
... gods of power had not triumphed , if kingship had not found a negative mode of increasing the scope of the human machine and therewith elevating the royal claim to absolute obedi- ence , the whole further course of civilization might ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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abstract achieved activities agriculture ancient animal anxiety Aurignacian became beginning Bertrand Gille brain Bronze Age bureaucracy Çatal Hüyük cave cave paintings century cities civilization collective command complex consciousness creature cultivation daily destruction divine domestication dream earliest economic effective effort Egypt Egyptian environment established esthetic evidence existence fact functions gods human machine hunter hunting images institution interpretation king kingship Kurt Goldstein labor language later Lower Egypt Magdalenian magic Marduk means megamachine ment merely mesolithic Mesopotamia military mind mode modern myth nature neolithic Oakes Ames observation once operations organization original paleolithic performed physical plants play possible practice primitive production pyramid of Djoser rational religion ritual sacred sacrifice Sargon of Akkad sexual significant social speech stone Sumer Sumerian survival symbolic technical thousand tion took tool-making traits turn village watermill weapons whole words York